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William Wordsworth. (1770-1850), Poet Laureate. Regency Portraits Catalogue Entry. Sitter in 23 portraits. With Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wordsworth published Lyrical Ballads (1798) which marked the development of a new type of poetry dealing with feeling and imagination.
This portrait depicts Wordsworth aged seventy-two. It was painted to commemorate a sonnet that he had composed on climbing the peak of Helvellyn, after seeing Haydon's picture of Wellington musing on the Battlefield of Waterloo .
The portrait, known colloquially as 'Wordsworth on Helvellyn', was painted to commemorate the poet composing the sonnet on Haydon's picture, 'Wellington musing on the Battlefield of Waterloo', finished in 1839 (NPG L152(3)).
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).
William Wordsworth (Cockermouth, Cumberland, Inglaterra, 7 de abril de 1770-Grasmere, Cumberland, Inglaterra, 23 de abril de 1850) fue uno de los más importantes poetas románticos ingleses.
10 de sept. de 2010 · English: William Wordsworth by Benjamin Robert Haydon oil on canvas, 1842 49 in. x 39 in. (1245 mm x 991 mm) Bequeathed by John Fisher Wordsworth, 1920 NPG 1857
Cornell’s famed Wordsworth Collection includes the earliest known portrait of the poet, painted by William Shuter in 1798 when Wordsworth was only 28 years old.
